Brigandi Case: How a $110,000 AI Hallucination Sanction Rewrites Risk for Legal AI Systems

Originally published on CoreProse KB-incidents When two lawyers in Oregon filed briefs packed with fake cases and fabricated quotations, the result was not a quirky “AI fail”—it was a $110,000 sanction, dismissal with prejudice, and a public ethics disaster. [1][5] For ML and platform engineers, the Brigandi matter is a concrete signal: if your system can move unverified model output into court-facing documents, your organization is in the blast radius. [1][5] 💼 Engineering lens: Treat this cas